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Can “Rover” help with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
COVID-19 has negatively affected the mental health and well-being of adults, and thus it is important to examine potential factors which may influence mental health during the pandemic. We thus examined the association between pet ownership and depression/anxiety symptoms based on mental health diso...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9594988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36304559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.961067 |
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author | Falck, Ryan S. Liu-Ambrose, Teresa Noseworthy, Matthew Kirkland, Susan Griffith, Lauren E. Basta, Nicole E. McMillan, Jacqueline M. Raina, Parminder |
author_facet | Falck, Ryan S. Liu-Ambrose, Teresa Noseworthy, Matthew Kirkland, Susan Griffith, Lauren E. Basta, Nicole E. McMillan, Jacqueline M. Raina, Parminder |
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description | COVID-19 has negatively affected the mental health and well-being of adults, and thus it is important to examine potential factors which may influence mental health during the pandemic. We thus examined the association between pet ownership and depression/anxiety symptoms based on mental health disorder status during the COVID-19 pandemic. We included 12,068 cognitively healthy participants (45–86 years at study entry) from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) comprehensive cohort who completed the first follow-up ([FU1]; 2015–2018), and COVID-19 Survey entry (April–May 2020) and exit (September-December 2020). Participants self-reported at FU1 if they owned a pet (yes/no). Participants were dichotomized as with or without a mental health disorder based on self-reported diagnosis of depression, anxiety, or mood disorders at baseline assessment (2011–2015) or FU1. Depressive symptoms were indexed using the 10-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10) at FU1, and COVID-19 entry/exit surveys. Anxiety symptoms were assessed using the General Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7) at COVID-19 entry/exit surveys. Final models adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, income, education, living status, smoking status, relationship status, and alcohol intake. Forty-percent of participants owned a pet at FU1. Among those without a mental health disorder, there were no significant differences in CESD-10 between participants who owned pets compared with those without pets. For people with a mental health disorder, pet owners had higher CESD-10 (estimated mean difference range: 0.56–1.02 points; p < 0.05) and GAD-7 scores (estimated mean difference range: 0.28–0.57 points; p < 0.05) at both COVID-19 entry and exit surveys. Among people with mental health disorders, pet ownership was associated with poor mental health symptoms during April 2020 to December 2020 of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-95949882022-10-26 Can “Rover” help with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Falck, Ryan S. Liu-Ambrose, Teresa Noseworthy, Matthew Kirkland, Susan Griffith, Lauren E. Basta, Nicole E. McMillan, Jacqueline M. Raina, Parminder Front Psychiatry Psychiatry COVID-19 has negatively affected the mental health and well-being of adults, and thus it is important to examine potential factors which may influence mental health during the pandemic. We thus examined the association between pet ownership and depression/anxiety symptoms based on mental health disorder status during the COVID-19 pandemic. We included 12,068 cognitively healthy participants (45–86 years at study entry) from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) comprehensive cohort who completed the first follow-up ([FU1]; 2015–2018), and COVID-19 Survey entry (April–May 2020) and exit (September-December 2020). Participants self-reported at FU1 if they owned a pet (yes/no). Participants were dichotomized as with or without a mental health disorder based on self-reported diagnosis of depression, anxiety, or mood disorders at baseline assessment (2011–2015) or FU1. Depressive symptoms were indexed using the 10-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10) at FU1, and COVID-19 entry/exit surveys. Anxiety symptoms were assessed using the General Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7) at COVID-19 entry/exit surveys. Final models adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, income, education, living status, smoking status, relationship status, and alcohol intake. Forty-percent of participants owned a pet at FU1. Among those without a mental health disorder, there were no significant differences in CESD-10 between participants who owned pets compared with those without pets. For people with a mental health disorder, pet owners had higher CESD-10 (estimated mean difference range: 0.56–1.02 points; p < 0.05) and GAD-7 scores (estimated mean difference range: 0.28–0.57 points; p < 0.05) at both COVID-19 entry and exit surveys. Among people with mental health disorders, pet ownership was associated with poor mental health symptoms during April 2020 to December 2020 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9594988/ /pubmed/36304559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.961067 Text en Copyright © 2022 Falck, Liu-Ambrose, Noseworthy, Kirkland, Griffith, Basta, McMillan and Raina. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Falck, Ryan S. Liu-Ambrose, Teresa Noseworthy, Matthew Kirkland, Susan Griffith, Lauren E. Basta, Nicole E. McMillan, Jacqueline M. Raina, Parminder Can “Rover” help with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) |
title | Can “Rover” help with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) |
title_full | Can “Rover” help with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) |
title_fullStr | Can “Rover” help with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) |
title_full_unstemmed | Can “Rover” help with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) |
title_short | Can “Rover” help with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) |
title_sort | can “rover” help with mental health during the covid-19 pandemic? results from the canadian longitudinal study on aging (clsa) |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9594988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36304559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.961067 |
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